aquascoot wrote on Jan 18^th, 2021 at 8:19am:


I dunno... I suspect the average 7 year old these days isn't frightened too easily.

Have a look at this picture from 1968 - I was only 11 years old when it was taken but I'm pretty sure it would have scared the living cr*p out of me if I'd seen it at the time.

The average 7 year old today probably wouldn't even notice it and wouldn't be bothered in the slightest if they did see it.

"Evil Santa" is my best way to describe it... if I were one of those cute little reindeer my first thought would have been "RUN!!!!" 

(For all the "Perthites" this picture was the old Bairds store on the corner of William and Murray Streets in the city... now the site of Perth Underground train station).

Bobby. wrote on Jan 18^th, 2021 at 7:34am:


It's gone up since I posted:


In the world -    2,039,602  dead.

In the USA -         407,202  dead.

Carl D wrote on Jan 18^th, 2021 at 3:52pm:


dear dear, its up from 6% to around 20 %


very dismissive of the health concerns around children.
seems you despise this cohort ??
faces glued to smartphones ?
quite a "generalisation" 

enlighten yourself

the world doesnt totally revolve around the very elderly 


The present study assessed children’s anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic in order to assist healthcare professionals in understanding children´s reports of anxiety. Comprehending children’s emotions was quite challenging, because the situations they experienced may not have characteristics in common with any previous event in their lives. Thus, giving them a voice was an essential strategy.

In the present study, the prevalence of anxiety among children was between 19.4% (n = 56), using the CAQ, and 21.8% (n = 63), using the NRS. Compared to previous research, this study found a high prevalence of anxiety. The worldwide prevalence of any anxiety disorder among children according to Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) and International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems (ICD) was shown to be 6.5%

Bobby. wrote on Jan 14^th, 2021 at 10:47am:


I'm not suggesting eradication or culling. 

They can be moved on out of residential & CBD roosts where they set up by the use of noise to unsettle them.

Councils all over the country are using this strategy to get them to move -much to the annoyance of all the dogooders who obviously don't have them roosting in their backyards.

As the United States’ covid-19 death toll moves relentlessly beyond 200,000, data shows that less then 100  children and teenagers have died of the disease (nearly all with major co-morbidities) , a fatality rate that is drawing wonder from clinicians and increasing interest among researchers hoping to understand why.

Covid-19 has become the nation’s third-leading cause of death this year, but 18 states had not seen a single fatality among people under 20 as of Sept. 10, according to statistics compiled by the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Children’s Hospital Association.

Children are much more likely to die of homicides (there were 1,865 in 2016, according to government data), drowning (995) or even fires and burns (340).

The numbers are all the more remarkable because respiratory diseases typically hit the young and the old hard, and children are often highly vulnerable to infectious disease. In this way, covid-19 is similar to the flu, which killed an estimated 24,000 to 62,000 people last winter, but 188 people age 17 and below.

I made a claim that Australia will have no more community transmissions by February this year. Just the occasional covid patient coming in from overseas. But, I also made the claim that we would see about 60,000 cases of covid before the end of the pandemic in Australia.

I still hold out hope that we should be back to normal by March.

Postmodern Trendoid III wrote on Jan 21^st, 2021 at 10:03pm:



Covid-19 was very bad while Florida in the USA was hot.
I'm not sure if this virus is killed so easily by hot weather.